Ex-Mayo ladies football boss Frank Browne has hit out at the “farcical process” to appoint a new Galway camogie manager, writes Eoghan Cormican.

Social workers have warned the child protection system is “in no way ready” for the introduction in six weeks time of mandatory reporting of child abuse concerns.

As the 6th National Child Protection and Welfare Conference gets underway in UCC, social workers are asking if mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse will improve or harm their ability to protect children, writes Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.

In 2004, Fiona McHale joined up with a Mayo team that had won four of the last five All-Ireland titles. She has long become the oil in the green and red engine, but the medal she presumed would come still hasn’t arrived. Tomorrow, against Dublin, she dreams again.

With the benefit of hindsight, Sarah Tierney looks back on it now with a sense of perspective.

Staunton ends Cork’s seven-year streak

The Irish Association of Social Workers has called on the Government to establish and fund a statutory social work service for vulnerable adults, amid warnings that many people are allowed to drift into the margins of society with no single agency responsible for their welfare.

Mary White gives the lowdown on the eight teams in the top division of the Lidl NFL...

Mayo manager Frank Browne remains “reasonably confident” that footballer Cora Staunton will commit to a 23rd season of inter-county fare.

The 2017 Lidl National League was launched today at the Lidl Headquarters in Tallaght with players and managers attending, but the main topic of conversation concerned arguably one of the greatest ever Ladies Footballers, Cora Staunton

A Brazilian-born “madam” drove away from court in a 161 L-registered €25,000 crossover 4x4 after pleading guilty to brothel keeping in Ennis and Limerick.

Dublin 2-10 Mayo 1-12: Dublin manager Gregory McGonigle has vowed to buy Dean Rock a few pints after his charges squeezed into a third successive TG4 All- Ireland Ladies SFC final.

In 2003, Frank Browne lost his six-month-old daughter to pneumonia. The tragedy has given the Mayo ladies football manager a sense of perspective on what really matters...

Cork 1-10 Mayo 0-10: Ephie Fitzgerald admitted that collecting his first piece of silverware as Cork ladies senior football team manager on Saturday came as a huge relief.

Mayo 1-16 Kerry 2-12: When Cora Staunton took possession from Sarah Rowe in the seventh minute of stoppage time in Saturday’s gripping Lidl Ladies NFL Division 1 semi-final, Frank Browne was in no doubt about the outcome.

Cora Staunton kicked a glorious late winning point in the seventh minute of additional time to steer Mayo into a first Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 final since 2013.

Following last weekend’s victory for Crosshaven’s Peter McCann in Kinsale at the ISA Junior All-Ireland Sailing Championships, attention switches to Dun Laoghaire this morning where Anthony O’Leary is set to defend his 2014 title at the National Yacht Club.

A judge has jailed a man for a “bizarre, criminal, appalling and dangerous” driving rampage through the streets of Ennis.

Celebrities’ penchant for the ‘selfie’ may leave many of us with a sinking feeling but it seems a man-of-the-cloth stole a march on them all and was the first to put himself in the frame more than a century ago.

Warwickshire 2-16 Longford 0-10, Croke Park

Longford 1-8 Sligo 0-9

There was a brace of Ulster wins in the opening round of the Lory Meagher Cup today as Tyrone and Fermanagh recorded victories.

The Longford senior hurlers have vowed to take part in this year's Lory Meagher Cup after a meeting of players, management and County Board officials last night at Pearse Park.

Warwickshire were the only winners in Allianz Hurling League Division 3B this afternoon, after Fermanagh's tie with Longford was postponed.

A pristine, 200-year-old Georgian in an enclave on Cork’s Sunday’s Well has been lovingly restored by the vendors, says Tommy Barker

THEY have been used to solve the mystery of her sinking, debunk theories about why it happened and make a Hollywood blockbuster.

A YOUNG Irishman’s poignant message in a bottle which he threw from the deck of the doomed Titanic has gone on public display for the first time in almost a century.

Cork and Mayo have named their teams for Sunday’s All-Ireland Ladies Football final.

Dual star Keith Higgins is to help the Mayo hurlers kickstart their bid for Christy Ring Cup glory this weekend by flying home from a training camp in Portugal.

THE weekend decision by the GAA’s annual Congress to allow weaker hurling counties to “import” five players from stronger counties has evoked mixed reactions.

THE weekend decision by the GAA’s annual Congress to allow weaker hurling counties to “import” five players from stronger counties has evoked mixed reactions.

KERRY coach Jack O’Connor and his fellow selectors have given a vote of confidence to the team which defeated Laois in the semi-final for Sunday’s Allianz Division One NFL final against Galway in Limerick (5.30pm).

Wexford man Frank Browne has been appointed as the new manager of the Mayo senior hurlers, succeeding Gerry Spelman.

Cobh Ramblers 3 Limerick 3

LIMERICK manager Noel O’Connor will extend a warm welcome to his American brethren when Oran Weldrick and Conor Molan return from a summer sabbatical in the USA in time for the start of the League Championship next week.